Latest News

  • Congratulations PhD Candidate Spencer Williams
    9/20/24
    Spencer Williams, whose debut collection of poems was just published by Four Way Books. https://fourwaybooks.com/site/tranz/
  • Congratulations Susan Weeber
    9/9/24
    Congratulations Susan Weeber, whose article, “Black Radicalism after the Haitian Revolution: Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti,” has just been published in MELUS. Here is the free-access link: https://academic.oup.com/melus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/melus/mlae046/7749545?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=melus&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=307c158e-61fb-4a35-8032-e55adceefac2
  • Congratulations Dr. Doug Basford
    4/11/24
    Doug Basford, Assistant Director of Composition, who has won the "Friend of EOP" award from the University at Buffalo Educational Opportunity Program for going "above and beyond" in his service to the program over the years!
  • Travis Sharp
    4/10/24
    Congratulations to Travis Sharp, whose second book of poetry, , was recently published with Unicorn Press and is now available!
  • Miriam Thaggert's Book Short-listed
    2/16/24
    We're excited to share the news that that Miriam Thaggert’s book, Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad, has been listed as one of three finalists for the Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).
  • Congratulations to Professor Rachel Ablow
    2/9/24
    Congratulations to Professor Rachel Ablow, who has been awarded Research Funding in the Arts and Humanities from the UB Office of the Vice Provost of Research and Economic Development and Humanities Institute for 2024-2025! This funding will support her research in the British Library for a new project on disagreement and persuasion in 19th-century literature and culture.
  • Susan Eilenberg
    1/25/24
    Congratulations to Professor Susan Eilenberg, whose essay on Keats, “Hooted from The Stage,” is now out in the current issue (25 January) of the London Review of Books
  • Congratulations to Associate Professor Dave Alff
    1/5/24
    Congratulations to Associate Professor Dave Alff, whose forthcoming book The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, The People, The History, The Region is now available for preorder! https://press.uchicago.edu/.../chicago/N/bo212886389.html
  • Congratulations to Assistant Professor Nicole Morris Johnson
    1/4/24
    Congratulations to Assistant Professor Nicole Morris Johnson, who has been awarded a Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave for spring 2024 to continue working on her book project, "The Souths in Her: Black Women's Poetics Beyond the Womb Abyss!"